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The innovative architecture of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches simplifies data center transformation by helping to enable a standards-based, high-performance unified fabric. Next-generation data centers increasingly have dense, multi-core, virtual-machine-intensive servers. As the network foundation of Cisco Data Center 3.0 and the latest addition to the family of data-center-class switches, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series can meet these business, service, application, and operational requirements.

With these switches, you can:

• Consolidate the data center and protect investments in existing server, network, storage, and facilities assets
• Decrease the total cost of ownership by simplifying the data center infrastructure
• Increase business agility with easier, faster, and pervasive data center virtualization
• Enhance business resilience with greater operational continuity
• Use existing operational models and administrative domains for easy deployment

The following is the pricing breakdown:

Chassis

Cisco Nexus 5020 Chassis - 40-port 10 GE 2RU switch with 5 Fan Modules
and no power supplies (req SFP+) N5K-C5020P-BF $34,500

Power Supply and Fan Modules

Nexus 5020 1200W AC Power Supply N5K-PAC-1200W(=) $1,500
Nexus 5020 Power Supply Blank N5K-P2-BLNK= $75
Nexus 5020 Fan Module N5K-C5020-FAN= $300

Expansion Modules

N5000 6-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module (req SFP+) N5K-M1600(=) $5,400
N5000 Expansion Module Blank N5K-M1-BLNK= $75

Transceivers and Cables

10GBase SR SFP+ optic SFP-10G-SR(=) $1,795
10GBase Copper SFP+ (Twinax) cable 1 meter SFP-H10GB-CU1M(=) $150
10GBase Copper SFP+ (Twinax) cable 3 meter SFP-H10GB-CU3M(=) $210
10GBase Copper SFP+ (Twinax) cable 5 meter SFP-H10GB-CU5M(=) $260

More information can be found at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html

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The Cisco Nexus 7000 is the newest switch to the Cisco family.

From Cisco.com:

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular data center-class switching system designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The Cisco Nexus architecture scales beyond 15 terabits per second, with future availability of 40Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet and unified fabric I/O modules. This new platform is designed for exceptional scalability, continuous systems operation, and transport flexibility.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Platform is powered by Cisco NX-OS, a state-of-the-art operating system. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is purpose-built for the data center and has many unique features and capabilities designed specifically for the most mission-critical place in the network, the data center.

Here is the pricing breakdown for the new Cisco Nexus 7000:

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